Laurendurrdesign

12/22/2023

Mom just sent me this, it was a Christmas gift to my Dad during the LEAN college senior year. He built us this tree house, the countertop was a sheet metal slide (yup metal slide no rails, oh just wait) and on each end hanging from the roof beam was a swing on one side, and a trapeze on the other. I still remember hanging upside down on that metal pipe, or sitting like a canary and just swinging away. Loved pretending to be a trapeze artist. The leaves of the grapefruit tree nearly killed me, but I managed.

03/14/2022

More from the school pickup. This is a mash of photos from Hilo lava flows that took our friends home and first time flower girl at another good friend’s wedding.

01/29/2022

Today parent pick up at the elementary school was productive.

10/19/2021

Trying to learn how to use has been fun. Now while waiting for school pick up I can keep drawing/painting. New skills make good brain chemistry.

05/25/2021

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Nine minutes, twenty nine seconds. A year ago today George Floyd’s murder finally made the world stop, look, and wake up. Unfortunately not much has changed and there is still so much work to be done of confronting & dismantling structural racism and white supremacy.

Repost • • began as a love letter to Black people in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s murder in 2013, but has since become the largest movement in US History, and a global rallying cry. The phrase “Black Lives Matter” has been used in protests, as a way to spread the message online, and by allies globally who stand in solidarity with Black people.

George Floyd should be here. Trayvon Martin should be here. Breonna Taylor should be here. Nina Pop should be here. Tony McDade should be here. Daunte Wright should be here. And so many countless others... The fight isn’t over. There is still so much work to be done. Today, we honor George Floyd— the legacy that lives on, and the ongoing fight for racial equality.

✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

02/26/2021

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I’ve been volunteering with my youngest’s PTSA for a few years now. This last year one of the programs we fund, our weekly year round art studio needed to go online.

Our wonderful art teacher records her lesson and I edit it into iMovie. It’s been a great break for our kids and even parents join in on the art making. This has helped me strengthen my own editing muscles, I am still a novice but I’m figuring it out as I go and finally polished up my intro to sewing machine video I sent to my sewing students while we were in “safer at home” lockdown (it was SO much lighter than other countries) but it’s relevant to any intro sewing machine.
Link in the bio or on YouTube under LaurenDurr

12/02/2020

We did a cute drive through experience at the daylight experience was fun but I bet the lights at night really shine.

07/31/2020

So this is my mama when I bought this plant home almost six years ago it was maybe two feet (they are expensive!) and would be taller if I hadn’t trimmed her and made two more her babies are on . She has gone through: two house moves, two repottings, pruning and now nicking to try and make more branches. After all that I think we are finally getting along again.

07/11/2020

Wow, found my old palette with paper in it, that’s what not unpacking all the boxes will do, years late surprises.

06/11/2020

Black lives matter, representation matters. Slowly making progress.

06/03/2020

06/03/2020

Participating in the National Art Drive